Teaching Quotes
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Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
John Ruskin
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If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
Carl E. Olson
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler
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A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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You’re not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.
Bel Kaufman
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Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.
Eva Moskowitz
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I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit:
We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules.
We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room.
We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach.
The library is closed to the students.
Bel Kaufman
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If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
Michael Ian Black
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There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
Robert Wilson
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The object of Christian faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
Peter O'Toole
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
Molly Ivins
